Peter Southart with
Pennine Cycles and Adorior Road Club

Author
Peter Underwood

Adrian Thornton from New Zealand contacted me to tell that he was
restoring a Pennine bike which had belonged to Peter Southart when he
rode for Pennine Cycles in several classic events including the Tour of
Britain and the Warsaw - Prague Race. He also had several
images
of Peter competing in races. These images are better than
most af
the day and we are composing a visual record of Peter's career. Adrian
has two blogs relating to New Zealand cycling history:

Peter
Southart at speed on a Pennine, notice braze-on at top (rear) of
seat tube.This
braze-on takes a clip for the Pennine CO2 pump.

Peter
riding for team Adorior with their 50s estate wagon complete with
woodwork on body.

He
finished in 4th place in this 1951 Brighton to Glasgow (6-day stage)
Race organised by the BLRC,he
also won the King of the Mountains prize.

Pete
Southart, in Pennine top, front left, pulling along a group with Les
Gill and Frank Garvey

(Image
above from Pennine Catalogue - Derek Browne)

Charlie Mather,
right, ready for a feed from his team in the Buxton Road Race 1957
(Hitter
Hill, Debyshire), G
Barlow, Stone Wheelers is the other rider.

Ready
to go racing, the bike has one bar-end gear
lever plus one down-tube, both fitted on right-hand side.

Early
1970s MG 'M' sports
car.

Peter
checking the gap

R
A F Mass-Start Championships - R A F St Athan - 1948Airfield
buildings can be seen in the background.

Adoria
Road Club team - no date

Golden
Horse Kermesse19
September 1948

Standing Stones, a popular hillclimb choice. It’s between Langley and
Wildboarclough,
not far from Macclesfield, on the fringes of the Peak District.

Ted
Redmond, Manchester Velo adds:
I have a couple of photos of Pete Southart, taken some time in the late
50s, which might interest you. My club at the time was
Manchester
Coureurs, now defunct, and we had an association with Pete through
Irene Evans who was in the Coureurs. My clearest memory of those
times is of riding a hilly route around the area of Algreave and Axe
Edge,
Coureurs versus Adorior, and we got well and truly whipped. But we
were only kids then, and some of us are still riding in our
70’s. Going back to the dates, I was racing until I
turned senior in 1955, raced a bit in 1956 then started taking photos
of events, went to do my National Service in 1959. I know that Pete
emigrated to New Zealand, don’t remember when, but it might
narrow the time-scale to a couple of years.

Peter Southart at the
junction
of the A635 and the A6024 in Holmfirth

Standing
Stones, a popular hillclimb choice. It’s between Langley and
Wildboarclough,
not far from Macclesfield, on the fringes of the Peak District.